The rallying cry has been issued.
At its August monthly meeting, leaders of the Lehigh Valley Tea Party urged its members to get active this election campaign season.
"We have to get the word out," President Barb Walters said during the at the Charles Chrin Community Center in Palmer Township.
"When we go out to community events, people don't know us. But we've been here four years," she said. "We need more of an outreach and get people to know the Tea Party."
She suggested that members reach out to their local legislators, governments and school board to spread the Tea Party message.
"We need to get active, get involved," member Bryan Eichfeld said. "There's the presidency, Senate, the new congressional district No. 17. Show up. We need to show support."
Eichfeld said that Tea Party members are good conservatives.
"We're non-partisan. We cannot endorse politicians," he said. "But volunteer, get involved. Make an individual effort."
According to its website, the Tea Party's mission is as follows:
"The mission of the LVTP is to educate our members and the Lehigh Valley community about our unalienable individual rights and limited government as defined by the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution so that they become involved in their government for the purpose of protecting and defending these rights."
Walters said the organization has it "tough."
"We know what the mainstream media thinks of us," she said. "But there are no Tea Party candidates. There's not Democrats, Republicans and the Tea Party."
Patch is a free and open forum which allows the exchange of ideas and thoughts. That's why you see conservative people commenting here (because they can, not like the mainstream media where they're locked out) and liberals like Frank are foaming at the mouth because of it.
Face it Frank. Conservatives can be bad, but liberals take the cake in terms of hostility, hatred, threats and blocking free speech.
How many 'safety tents' did women need at tea party events, in order to not be raped or assulted? None. At Occupy Wall Street, rape was a daily occurrence. So who's worse?
We could go back and forth all day with our "opinions". You have yours and I have mine. But you're not going to have me believe that conservatives are any less "bad".
Fright, you are aware that it was bad enough that OWS had to put up a safety tent for women?
We did a preview of a shale event and covered it (after all Shale is a big deal) and then I had a story about what happened at their meeting. That's it.
Were you there? I was, and it was worse than anything you saw in the press.
I hear so many falsehoods and wonder how someone who has never personally experienced a t party rally can be so vehemently judgemental. But it happens all the time.......so much for trying to understand and know your presumed "enemy" before you verbally attack them !
"Keep the Government Out of My Medicare" (http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/funnypictures/ig/Teabagging-Pictures/Government-Out-of-My-Medicare.htm) Have good intentions but a little lost in the big picture